Famous Quotes & Sayings

With all this rain and the wet weather, we already have mosquitoes developing and adults flying. There are eight positive birds in the state and half of them are here.

Finding birds is a critical part of the recovery process and we're hoping for some exciting news.

Phillip Thomas

But once they heard there was gas up here, they came Sunday and Monday and we had more hunters. I wish the birds would have been the same way. We had plenty on Saturday but they were scarce the next two days.

We need to step up control to reduce contact between wild birds and poultry, and also contact between humans and wild birds.

Migratory birds are the main distributors on the international scale and there is no way to stop them. Locally, migratory fowl and the trade in live and recently dead poultry keep it in circulation, too.

Migratory birds are innocent bystanders. I don't doubt (they're) moving the virus. I just don't think they're the primary movers.

Migratory birds are being blamed, but once poultry has been infected, it can spread from town to town, especially if people buy the infected poultry.

Wild birds seem to be one of the main avian influenza carriers, but more research is urgently needed to fully understand their role in spreading the virus,

When the birds realize that they are being chased away every day, they stop coming after a while. They don't want to molt here.

You bring the gun up, and if you see orange, you don't pull the trigger. I guess he got caught up in the frenzy of the birds going up.

We have chosen sites and species of birds that we think are the most likely ones that contact birds over in the Russian Siberian side that have the potential to migrate and make contact with birds in North America.

We're watching a very specific virus move very quickly through a very large population of birds and continuously evolve. That's worrisome.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.

We get very few quail. The last ones we got were domesticated birds that had gotten loose.

We get birds in, eagles that were banded 35 years ago that are shot and taken out of the environment which is very sad.

The only real finding was that it was progressively less severe, the more neighbors the birds had. It reinforces this general message of how important physical and social enrichment for these birds really is. Well thought-out physical and social environments should be first thing we think of.

Only birds can be infected. There is no bird flu strain that can be transmitted to humans in Dagestan.

Nigel: Hi there. Sorry if I took a snap at you at one time. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta eat.

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

Tim Griffin

We can't look at just the side-to-side movement, ... but in terms of the combined side-to-side and forward movement, penguins conserved up to 80 percent of the mechanical energy required for walking. This was quite high, because other measurements for humans and other birds have found that they recovered only up to 70 percent of the mechanical energy.

We have undertaken an extensive clean up of the poultry farms now that the birds are gone. We hope to complete this exercise over the next three days.

James Harris

Parent birds normally shade the young during the day,

Many countries use vaccines and think the virus is completely exterminated ... but this problem is still in southeast Asia. It's even in migratory birds and they are dying. Why? Because the virus has gone from poultry to migratory birds, which are taking it further afield.

Dick Thompson

The crisis ... may seem more intense now because birds in Europe have become infected.

The popularity in keeping and breeding birds is rising rapidly in the UK and we are one of the main players in the bird trade in Europe,

Mark Ferguson

What we discovered were teeth similar to those of crocodilesnot surprising as birds are the closest living relatives of the reptile.

There are some studies going on now in Missouri on penned birds where they were fed a certain number of lead shot. They've found that if they ingest even a small number of shot, they have a very low survival rate.

The fact that humans are tweeting more than birds now...is this evolution?

We also worry that birds will stop off in some of the U.S. territories in the Pacific like Guam, and Hawaii.

When I was a child growing up in the city, you never saw hawks. It's now quite common to see large birds of prey in New York City.

We're going to increase surveillance of migratory birds because we know that is a potential pathway.

We're hoping some of our birds will just show up.